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Layer:03 – PSYCHE

  • Season 1 · Episode 3
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Alice, Julie, and Reika are minor celebrities in their class after they witness a shooting at The Cyberia. Lain is given a black-market chip for her computer, but it seems she is also being followed.

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Watch Serial Experiments Lain online free on this page: the official trailer in HD, the player and a page for every episode, with no sign-up and no subscription. Serial Experiments Lain (1998, animation, drama, sci-fi & fantasy, mystery) has 1 season and 13 episodes; below you'll find the plot and the voice cast. It is part of our collections: Psychological & Mind-Bending Anime, Sci-Fi & Cyberpunk Anime. Episodes can't be downloaded here and there are no torrents — the page is for watching online only.

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Season 1

13 episodes · 1998

  1. Episode 1: Layer:01 – WEIRD1✓ WatchedLayer:01 – WEIRD24 min · Jul 6, 1998Lain Iwakura, a shy, 13-year-old schoolgirl, receives an email from a schoolmate after her suicide. Is it a prank? Lain doesn't feel horror, but curiosity.
  2. Episode 2: Layer:02 – GIRLS2✓ WatchedLayer:02 – GIRLS24 min · Jul 13, 1998Classmates Alice, Julie, and Reika wonder if that was Lain they saw at the nightclub Cyberia. To find out, they invite Lain to go with them to the club.
  3. Episode 3: Layer:03 – PSYCHE3Now playingLayer:03 – PSYCHE24 min · Jul 20, 1998Alice, Julie, and Reika are minor celebrities in their class after they witness a shooting at The Cyberia. Lain is given a black-market chip for her computer, but it seems she is also being followed.
  4. Episode 4: Layer:04 – RELIGION4✓ WatchedLayer:04 – RELIGION24 min · Jul 27, 1998Some players of a Wired game called PHANTOMa are dying suspicious deaths. Lain investigates, but her growing interest in the Wired worries her father, as well as classmates Mika and Alice.
  5. Episode 5: Layer:05 – DISTORTION5✓ WatchedLayer:05 – DISTORTION24 min · Aug 3, 1998Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.
  6. Episode 6: Layer:06 – KIDS6✓ WatchedLayer:06 – KIDS24 min · Aug 10, 1998Young children are acting strangely, arms outstretched and silently staring at the sky. A shocking vision suddenly appears in the skies; it looks like Lain! Determined to get to the bottom of this, Lain's investigations finally bring her to the creator of KIDS -- but what she discovers is not what she hoped for.
  7. Episode 7: Layer:07 – SOCIETY7✓ WatchedLayer:07 – SOCIETY24 min · Aug 17, 1998As the Knights activities make the evening news, a strange man named Nazumi wanders the city with machines strapped to his body. People on the WIRED are asking: ""Who is Lain"". Meanwhile, the two MIB agents take Lain to the Techibana offices where Lain's identity is challenged by a man; how well does she know her parents, her sister, herself? Can Lain answer him?
  8. Episode 8: Layer:08 – RUMORS8✓ WatchedLayer:08 – RUMORS24 min · Aug 24, 1998Still shaken by the information she received from the Men In Black, Lain discovers that she is being blamed for spreading an ugly rumor in the WIRED. Is what the MIB said is true; is she another person in the WIRED? Or is she doing it herself? Lain must find out or risk losing the one true friend she has.
  9. Episode 9: Layer:09 – PROTOCOL9✓ WatchedLayer:09 – PROTOCOL24 min · Aug 31, 1998A documentary about Roswell gives Lain some valuable information about the pioneers of the WIRED. Later, at the Cyberia, J.J. tells Lain that she left something the day before and hands her an envelop with the Knight's logo on it. The envelop contains a chip. Believing this was the other 'Lain's' doing again, she decides to call Taro's bluff and go on a 'date'. Taking him to her room, Lain demands that he tell her what he knows. Together, with Taro's information and the mysterious chip, Lain finds out more then she expected.
  10. Episode 10: Layer:10 – LOVE10✓ WatchedLayer:10 – LOVE24 min · Sep 7, 1998Lain struggles with her identity. Is she a human being, or just a hologram? And are the Knights responsible for the Evil Lain? Lain decides to deal with the Knights once and for all.
  11. Episode 11: Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY11✓ WatchedLayer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY24 min · Sep 14, 1998Alone and frightened, Lain immerses herself in the WIRED, processing the events of the past few weeks and searching for the truth of who she is.
  12. Episode 12: Layer:12 – LANDSCAPE12✓ WatchedLayer:12 – LANDSCAPE24 min · Sep 21, 1998Troubled by what she saw, Alice decides to visit Lain at home and find out what is going on. Meanwhile, the two MIB agents receive a terrible shock and Eiri reveals his real motive for removing the barrier between the real world and the WIRED.
  13. Episode 13: Layer:13 – EGO13✓ WatchedLayer:13 – EGO24 min · Sep 28, 1998The world is crumbling, people are dying and Alice's sanity is threatened. To save humanity, there is only one thing Lain can do; she must make the ultimate personal sacrifice.

About the series

Serial Experiments Lain · 1998

Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

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Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

Who created Serial Experiments Lain?

Serial Experiments Lain was created by Yoshitoshi Abe, Ryūtarō Nakamura. Voice cast: Ayako Kawasumi, Kaori Shimizu, Rei Igarashi, Ryusuke Oobayashi, Yoko Asada.

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How many seasons and episodes does Serial Experiments Lain have?

Serial Experiments Lain has 1 season and 13 episodes.

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